Patch "wil6210: fix deadlock when using fw_no_recovery option" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    wil6210: fix deadlock when using fw_no_recovery option

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     wil6210-fix-deadlock-when-using-fw_no_recovery-option.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From dfb5b098e0f40b68aa07f2ec55f4dd762efefbfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lior David <qca_liord@qca.qualcomm.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:06:41 +0200
Subject: wil6210: fix deadlock when using fw_no_recovery option

From: Lior David <qca_liord@qca.qualcomm.com>

commit dfb5b098e0f40b68aa07f2ec55f4dd762efefbfa upstream.

When FW crashes with no_fw_recovery option, driver
waits for manual recovery with wil->mutex held, this
can easily create deadlocks.
Fix the problem by moving the wait outside the lock.

Signed-off-by: Lior David <qca_liord@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <qca_merez@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/main.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/main.c
@@ -240,18 +240,19 @@ static void wil_fw_error_worker(struct w
 
 	wil->last_fw_recovery = jiffies;
 
+	wil_info(wil, "fw error recovery requested (try %d)...\n",
+		 wil->recovery_count);
+	if (!no_fw_recovery)
+		wil->recovery_state = fw_recovery_running;
+	if (wil_wait_for_recovery(wil) != 0)
+		return;
+
 	mutex_lock(&wil->mutex);
 	switch (wdev->iftype) {
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT:
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR:
-		wil_info(wil, "fw error recovery requested (try %d)...\n",
-			 wil->recovery_count);
-		if (!no_fw_recovery)
-			wil->recovery_state = fw_recovery_running;
-		if (0 != wil_wait_for_recovery(wil))
-			break;
-
+		/* silent recovery, upper layers will see disconnect */
 		__wil_down(wil);
 		__wil_up(wil);
 		break;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from qca_liord@qca.qualcomm.com are

queue-3.18/wil6210-fix-deadlock-when-using-fw_no_recovery-option.patch